The Seraphim painting is done and finished!
After Part 2 of the painting, I had about half the feathers laid in on the wings, and the foreground and background partly blocked in. A few yellow outlines were still showing through as yellow-green.
I filled in the wings first and defined most of the feathers. While I was doing that, I used some of the blue to tidy up and hide the remaining outlines. Then I put one or two touches on the man, and put a medium tan down for the ground, and defined the fiery hole further. The spit of land the man was lying on was at an odd angle, I bulked it up and added the man's shadow. I touched up the feathers that looked out of place and added white to the Seraphim's blinding face. Finally I filled in the sky, being careful not to make it too saturated or colorful.
I was pleasantly surprised by how well the painting turned out. It's a common occurrence with me; I beat myself up about the early stages of a painting, and then it turns out not so bad.
There was not a specific theme or message to this painting. I wanted to show a man in awe at being shown even a sliver of the power of a Seraphim, a creature beyond human comprehension in its entire and true form. This would be the angel showing its most simple facet, a part of its being that a merely mortal mind could digest. I do want to have specific themes for this kind of paintings; they will come in the future.
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